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The Fellowship annually rewards one writer $50,000 for demonstrating exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise in their publications to date. The Fellowship is intended to draw attention to a writer’s past work and to stimulate interest in their future work, but, more importantly, it is meant to provide recipients a window in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.

Fellows are additionally invited to attend a two-week, self-directed residency at the Leighton Artists’ Colony at The Banff Centre.

Writers working in the categories of fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, or literature for young people, and at any stage of their careers, are eligible so long as they have a strong publishing track record.